“Oh boy, I get to oversee this evil asshole’s certification as president!”
This gif is gonna get some serious mileage over the next 4 years
The proof is in the pudding.
it wasn’t liberals warning them
Yes it was. Edit: Maybe “not just liberals” would be a better comment
Yeah the leftists knew what else was coming but liberal outrage was all about the racism and open corruption.
The corruption needs to be deniable or people lose faith in the con, liberal leadership knows this.
Is this another dumbass leftist vs liberal comment or do you have something meaningful to say?
no no, let’s just pretend that everyone left of ultra-right are neoliberals… a very narrowly defined political ideology… everything else just falls under the straw man of neoliberalism…
I mean this in the most neutral, literal sense: I do not know what the fuck you just said.
i wouldn’t just go around telling people that…
How brave. Going out and broadcasting to the world just how dense you are.
They are so dense their brain is a black hole; not a single intelligent thought is able to escape.
“Wisdom has been chasing you, but you have managed to outrun it”
really need to remember this for opportunities at work
It’s more than that, though. It’s broadcasting that the writer is also a racist xenophobe because they didn’t care until it affected their specific racial demographic.
How brave. Going out and broadcasting to the world just how dense you are.
Well then you’re an idiot and deserve whatever MAGA does to you. You literally asked them to do it.
“I thought being a collaborator would foster upon me special class that would protect me and make me honorary white. That was proven wrong, and now I’m upset I’m being treated like everyone else”
It’s pretty unfortunate that so many humans are so stupid that they have to suffer before learning obvious lessons. The unfortunate part being that people with regularly functioning brains have to go along for the shit ride with them.
This is the part that gripes me the most.
It would of course be best if more people had sufficient empathy to oppose the oppression of others just in and of itself, but I recognize that empathy isn’t sll that common (and has its own drawbacks), so I don’t really expect that.
But at the very least, anyone should be able to follow the simple chain of reasoning that leads to the conclusion that a system that’s empowered to oppress someone, no matter who it is or what the excuse is, is a system that’s empowered to oppress me if it happens to turn its attention my way.
It’s as if people stand in the middle of a crowd as gunmen walk around, shooting people in the head, and they completely ignore it (or worse yet cheer it on) right up until the moment the gun is pointed at their own heads. And then and only then - far too late - do they think to oppose it.
Conservatism doesn’t allow for empathy. It isn’t part of the ideology.
Bold to hope that they’ll learn anything. Far more likely they’ll buy into the propoganda saying all their problems are still someone else’s fault.
It’s even more unfortunate is how many don’t learn by suffering. They simply blame the out group for it.
Since it is the same group they was trying to warn them, it’s the easier path.
Her turning point:
But then a few days ago, I opened X to see my feed populated with anti-Indian vitriol—calling the country where my parents were born “filthy” and its people “filthy and undesirable.” Some condemned these comments but many others agreed, and still others criticized the critics for crying racism. But I could see it for what it was: raw bigotry.
Same old story:
My life is filled with immigrants from India and Nigeria and Lebanon and the Dominican Republic—many of whom are definitionally the “working class”—who voted for Trump. They are family members and neighbors, cafe owners who greet me by name, doctors, cleaning ladies, the mailman, my Cape Verdean babysitter-turned-friend of many years. All of them opposed illegal immigration while defending Trump from critics: “He’s not anti-legal immigration, he’s anti-illegal immigration,” they’d said. “I’m pro-legal immigration—make it easier to do it the lawful way,” they’d say.
I will never understand how people can’t see it’s thinly veiled racism when it comes from the GOP.
I will never understand how people can’t see it’s thinly veiled racism when it comes from the GOP.
They’re morons. Wanna bet a lot of them were swayed by anti-abortion or anti-trans rhetoric? If not that then, ‘demonrats are going to turn this country communist’ propaganda?
Paying attention is gay, woke, and demonic.
And propaganda works. Everytime. In one direction.
C’mon, what did Harry Styles do now?
In the direction of blaming someone.
In this case, that terrible moussemonger Harry Styles.
Propaganda goes both ways.
Ex.: guns cause violence. It’s a classic Dem. talking point. (And highly ironic that they say, “no one needs a gun, just call the cops!” out of one side of their mouth, and “police are the oppressors of the working class and are the enforcers of systemic racism!” out of the other.) And yet we’ve just seen two terrorist incidents in the past week and a half that involved cars. Do rental trucks cause violence, maybe? I know I would be filled with rage if I was forced to drive a vehicle made by Musk’s company…
p.s. - LGBTQ+ and nonwhite gun ownership rates are increasing, and I am so there for it.
No, it’s the same way.
Even if I allow your example, which I wouldn’t, the “propaganda” in question is still - blaming someone for something.
That’s what ALL propaganda does. That’s why the Dems can’t use it very well. First of all blaming people for things is a classic conservative characteristic.
Ex.: guns cause violence.
Guns clearly facilitate and amplify violence.
It’s a classic Dem. talking point.
It’s a stat. It’s as much a talking point as “the sun came up”.
(And highly ironic that they say, “no one needs a gun, just call the cops!” out of one side of their mouth, and “police are the oppressors of the working class and are the enforcers of systemic racism!” out of the other.)
Not outside of home-room. Cops need oversight and better help to deal with stress and persecution issues when they pop up. Cops need to be absolutely fired if they exhibit a pattern of racism or other discrimination – just like every other job, but with extra care because of the lethal force they can apply. This has been discussed. And wouldn’t even be ironic, Alanis.
Right. Carry on.
How do you tell someone the country they’ve loved for 50 years is harboring a growing faction that wishes he’d never come?
“The guy you voted for doesn’t like you because of where you came from”
Apparently the writer has barely paid any attention to what’s been going on over the last 10 years…
The right being poorly educated isn’t a quip; it’s a designation. One they can neither accept nor escape.
They were, this is classic “It’s not racism until they’re racist against me” development. It wasn’t racist when it was against only Mexicans/blacks tho.
This was my take as well. They only realized the MAGA folks were racist when they called Indians filthy.
When they were calling mexicans rapists and murders 😴
When they said africa was full of shithole countries 😴
I could go on, but it is kinda exhausting. Coming up next is the working class people when they start getting called white trash. Its coming once they consolidate enough power and dont need them anymore.
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Unfortunately, most people don’t.
Yeah they didn’t really hide the racism inherent in their anti-immigrant demagoguery.
Whaaaaaat? You mean the bigotry and vitriol of the GOP isn’t limited to Mexicans, Hatians, Chinese, Guatemalans, Columbians, Cubans, Women, Gays, Transgender, Liberals, Muslims, Jews, Palestinians, Athiests, Americans wanting affordable healthcare, Americans wanting a living wage, Americans wanting affordable housing, Americans wanting renewable clean energy, Americans wanting a clean environment, immigrants, healthcare workers fighting a global pandemic, journalists, hecklers, and generally anybody who does not vote Republican?
Please add any groups that I forgot.
Ah, turks maybe?
Communists, socialists, the educated, the poor, the homeless, vegetarians, people with hair coloring (except blond)
I’m grey haired, and definitely feel very threatened by Trump’s incoming presidency.
Hrm what did you miss…
At this point, basically all academics and scientists of pretty much any field who are not connected to a conservative think tank or corporate astroturf advocacy group…
Teachers…
Black Americans…
The Homeless…
Anyone that wants to watch porn…
Transgender is the correct term btw, the one you used is dated and derogatory
Thank you. I’ve corrected my post.
Please add any groups that I forgot.
I think it’s faster to list the people who aren’t targeted; because it’s ever more segregation all the way down. It’s one ‘other’ group after the other, until it’s just “rich, white, fat, lazy, male, narcissists who are me.”
That poem’s last lines should be “and then they came for my wife, but I was born correctly and so I understood. And then we came for me, and I didn’t see it coming.” Look at how donald turned on his co-conspirators when it came down to it all – the entirety of othering pares down to narcissism.
Don’t forget military veterans, especially the ones that got captured and tortured, or sick or disabled as a result of their service. There’s also treating Puerto Ricans like they’re not part of the US.
I mean, they’re a colony, so unfortunately until they get the opportunity to free themselves/be part of the USA proper, Puerto Ricans are by definitions sub-citizens. Have the dems ever expressed the desire to change that even?
Stop associating Trump with the working class. MAGA is a petite bourgeois movement. Workers don’t go for Trump because they’re racists, they go for Trump because their boss likes Trump and they’re a little politically backward, and that’s for a whole host of cultural and institutional reasons.
One thing that is interesting to me is how small business owners or like mid-upper management types will take on all these worker affectations like trucks, country music, cowboy hats, etc. but don’t get it twisted, one exploits and the other is exploited, and the worker who needs their boss to survive, aspires to be like him. And their boss has huge trump flags everywhere, signs in their yard, and he seems like someone just like me!
This source is terrible.
A friend of mine was raised Republican; he’d say, fiscal Republican. He was certain that people without healthcare could just get treated for free for whatever they needed and that POC brought it all on themselves. Generally, he thought that people were nice and good and would take care of each other as long as the people in need weren’t miscreants.
Then he met a nice black girl, got married, and had some kids.
Now he’s seeing how they’re treated differently when they’re not together, and how he’s treated differently when he’s with her.
How family is now all at odds as the grandparents are still in the old camp and aren’t sympathetic to his findings and struggles.
The propaganda is hard to work around. They want to believe that there’s good and evil in the world and good prevails. It’s what their churches tell them. It’s not until each one of them individually experiences hardship that they realize that something is off, and they still remain confused as to what’s real and what’s now.
Classic conservative. Doesn’t care until it affects them.
they want to believe their evil is good.
and that good in the world is actually evil.
That’s the thing though, that’s how they wind up with that evil. It’s that and the idea that their discomfort is always justified
I’ve got an old high school friend whose family migrated from Taiwan when she was a kid. She was dyed-in-the-wool “China Bad / Communism Bad” and quickly adopted the Texas brand of anti-Communist Republicanism. She got a law degree, joined the Federalist Society, started a practice in the Houston suburbs, and even made inroads within the local Republican Party as a team player.
Then she tried to run for an open judicial seat in her neighborhood, during the Republican Primary. Instantly bombarded with crazy racist attacks. Tarred as a Chinese Communist. Smeared as a Manchurian Candidate. Received a ton of hate mail. Got blasted on in the local radio. Came in a distant third place with pretty much only her local friends and neighbors supporting her, in a crazy low-turnout election.
Democrats came and courted her as a possible candidate on their side, because the Democrats in Fort Bend are far more plural with a big East Asian demographic (but just as “business-friendly” neoliberal). She outright rejected the offer and doubled down with the GOP. Now she’s hosting dinner parties with Dinesh D’Souz and Charlie Kirk to fund-raise for the same Trump candidates in her neighborhood that smeared her. She’s convinced her turn will come. People in the party keep insisting (quietly and in back rooms) that they do actually support her and a seat will open up for her eventually.
Absolutely fucking crazy. I don’t understand it at all.
That’s a thing I’ve noticed. Sometimes progressives try too hard while conservatives treat you like everyone else. I’ve seen people of all types think that means conservatives are fine and not bigoted. Like no, most of them aren’t going on bigoted rants to the face of the affected, but that doesn’t mean the rants don’t happen.
